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Chansons bretonnes sur d'anciennes chansons populaires, Op 115

Introduction

Charles Koechlin (1867-1950) was no careerist. His music is of the highest order: imaginative and innovative, but making no claim to popular qualities. It is lyrical, sometimes fragile in its refined simplicity, and often free in rhythm. It is not as immediately accessible as the music of Ravel (who, like Koechlin, studied with Fauré), or a text by Maupassant, or a painting by Monet; but the closer one listens, the more apparent become the distinctive colours of Koechlin’s palette.

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